Two weeks ago, I conducted a participatory exhibit design workshop with staff at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Betw...

On a recent trip to DC, an old friend showed me around a new exhibit at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM), From Memory to Action: Mee...

This guest post was written by Nicole Robert, a graduate student in the course I’m teaching at the University of Washington on social techno...

I've become convinced that successful paths to participation in museums start with self-identification. If you want visitors to share s...

You know how Ira Glass recently broadcast his radio show This American Life live to movie theaters across North America? Next week, I'...

Recently, I've become obsessed with the work of Tim Hunkin , an eccentric British inventor/exhibit designer/wacky science art guy who ru...

I just returned from the American Association of Museums (AAM) annual meeting in Philadelphia. I led two sessions, one on visitor co-created...

On Friday, I offered a participatory design workshop for Seattle-area museum professionals ( slides here ). We concluded by sharing the tou...

Like many people who've worked in science centers and interactive experience museums, I've always been perplexed by the fact that ha...

I just got home from the Museums and the Web conference in Indianapolis. I’d never attended before and was impressed by many very smart, i...